Surveillance Via Smart Toothbrush
May 29 2025The only links are from The Daily Mail and The Mirror, but a marital affair was discovered because the cheater was recorded using his smart toothbrush at home when...
Read morePrivacy for Agentic AI
May 3 2025Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking...
Read moreUS as a Surveillance State
May 2 2025Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state. It’s good to see this finally being talked about. EDITED TO...
Read moreThe company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data:
Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by...
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DIRNSA Fired
April 7 2025In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
It’s something a bunch of us were saying...
Read moreRayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance
March 8 2025The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area. It runs on a $20...
Read moreAtlas of Surveillance
February 18 2025The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.
Read moreUK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption
February 8 2025The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to...
Read moreGoogle Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting
January 3 2025Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback. EDITED TO ADD (1/12): Shashdot thread.
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